Word: contract
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...acting after his mother had enrolled him in speaking classes. He was an R.A.F. wireless operator in World War II, was shot down, and spent a year in a German prison camp. After some postwar repertory and lots of television, he was about to sign a film contract when he read the script of The Caretaker. The play paid him ?10 a week at London's Arts Theater Club; it proved such a hit that it moved to a larger commercial house and ran for more than a year...
...employees, members of local 254 of the Building Services International Union, have continued working on what their negotiator called a "day-to-day" basis after their contract expired July...
Wages, Sullivan said, are the Union's major concern. The recently-expired contract provided that wages for similar work be roughly equal at both Harvard and Radcliffe. Both Mary I. Bunting, president of Radcliffe, and Sullivan said last night that the College's "final offer" puts wages at about the current Harvard levels...
...Institutions as close as these can't be played off against one another," Mrs. Bunting added, explaining that the College wants to maintain this provision in a new contract. The Union maintains that neither the current nor proposed Harvard-level wages are sufficient for current costs of living...
Utah is one of the nation's biggest uranium-oxide suppliers to the Atomic Energy Commission, operates Lucky Me mine in Wyoming. The company has a contract with the Navajo tribal council giving it an option to strip-mine rich coal deposits on the Navajo reservation in northwestern New Mexico. More recently, Utah obtained options on valuable copper deposits on Vancouver Island, British Columbia...